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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2004
Paul T. Buchheit, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bay-wei W. Chang, Foster City, CA (US);
D. Peter Mattis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian D. Rakowski, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Terry A. Winograd, Stanford, CA (US);
Paul T. Buchheit, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bay-Wei W. Chang, Foster City, CA (US);
D. Peter Mattis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian D. Rakowski, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Terry A. Winograd, Stanford, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for searching messages is disclosed that includes searching a message repository to identify one or more messages relevant to a search query, Each identified message belongs to a respective conversation, where each conversation includes one or more messages which share a common set of characteristics that meet predefined criteria. For at least one of the identified messages, the conversation to which it is associated is identified as well as a message content portion from identified message. The content portion includes content relevant to at least one search term of the search query. The conversation is produced as the search result, including the content portion.